Just started reading "Royal seal of mahamudra" and as you say Magnus it is very good. I like my instruction manuals to be practical and concise and this certainly seems to be that, highly recommended.. One of my other personal favourites is " Vivid awareness" Khenpo Gangshar instructions with commentary by Thrangu Rinpoche, again practical, concise and written in plain English!! For a numbskull like me that is very important..... Looking forward to receiving pith instructions from Khenpo Gangshar's teachings in a few weeks from my beloved teacher Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche....

"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")

Just started reading "Royal seal of mahamudra" and as you say Magnus it is very good. I like my instruction manuals to be practical and concise and this certainly seems to be that, highly recommended.. One of my other personal favourites is " Vivid awareness" Khenpo Gangshar instructions with commentary by Thrangu Rinpoche, again practical, concise and written in plain English!! For a numbskull like me that is very important..... Looking forward to receiving pith instructions from Khenpo Gangshar's teachings in a few weeks from my beloved teacher Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche....

Lucky you, I want even see Rinpoche this year because of work issues. I signed up for Chokling Rinpoches seminar i September instead.

/magnus

"We are all here to help each other go through this thing, whatever it is."
~Kurt Vonnegut

"The principal practice is Guruyoga. But we need to understand that any secondary practice combined with Guruyoga becomes a principal practice." ChNNR (Teachings on Thun and Ganapuja)

Just started reading "Royal seal of mahamudra" and as you say Magnus it is very good. I like my instruction manuals to be practical and concise and this certainly seems to be that, highly recommended.. One of my other personal favourites is " Vivid awareness" Khenpo Gangshar instructions with commentary by Thrangu Rinpoche, again practical, concise and written in plain English!! For a numbskull like me that is very important..... Looking forward to receiving pith instructions from Khenpo Gangshar's teachings in a few weeks from my beloved teacher Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche....

Lucky you, I want even see Rinpoche this year because of work issues. I signed up for Chokling Rinpoches seminar i September instead.

/magnus

Are you going to Chokling Rinpoche in Denmark or Austria... I and my wife are very interested in the Guru Dewa Chenpo retreat also the guru yoga of simplicity transmission....I think he is giving these at the two centres?

"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde

philji wrote:
Are you going to Chokling Rinpoche in Denmark or Austria... I and my wife are very interested in the Guru Dewa Chenpo retreat also the guru yoga of simplicity transmission....I think he is giving these at the two centres?

I am going to Denmark, hitch a ride with a friend. I still can't see any program in Austria. The ultimate Guru Yoga of Simplicity is just a lung, just ask nicely. In Denmark it seems he is giving the Sampa Lhundrup (main deity is Guru Dewa Chenpo)as well as a Vajrapani empowerment and also an other very short Dewa Chenpo practice (probably this one: http://lhaseylotsawa.org/wp-content/upl ... -marks.pdf) . Then threefold sky practice.

Would be nice to see you there.

/magnus

"We are all here to help each other go through this thing, whatever it is."
~Kurt Vonnegut

"The principal practice is Guruyoga. But we need to understand that any secondary practice combined with Guruyoga becomes a principal practice." ChNNR (Teachings on Thun and Ganapuja)

philji wrote:
Are you going to Chokling Rinpoche in Denmark or Austria... I and my wife are very interested in the Guru Dewa Chenpo retreat also the guru yoga of simplicity transmission....I think he is giving these at the two centres?

I am going to Denmark, hitch a ride with a friend. I still can't see any program in Austria. The ultimate Guru Yoga of Simplicity is just a lung, just ask nicely. In Denmark it seems he is giving the Sampa Lhundrup (main deity is Guru Dewa Chenpo)as well as a Vajrapani empowerment and also an other very short Dewa Chenpo practice (probably this one: http://lhaseylotsawa.org/wp-content/upl ... -marks.pdf) . Then threefold sky practice.

Would be nice to see you there.

/magnus

Although it isn't yet listed on Gomde Austria site, this is on CGLF website.

philji wrote:
Are you going to Chokling Rinpoche in Denmark or Austria... I and my wife are very interested in the Guru Dewa Chenpo retreat also the guru yoga of simplicity transmission....I think he is giving these at the two centres?

I am going to Denmark, hitch a ride with a friend. I still can't see any program in Austria. The ultimate Guru Yoga of Simplicity is just a lung, just ask nicely. In Denmark it seems he is giving the Sampa Lhundrup (main deity is Guru Dewa Chenpo)as well as a Vajrapani empowerment and also an other very short Dewa Chenpo practice (probably this one: http://lhaseylotsawa.org/wp-content/upl ... -marks.pdf) . Then threefold sky practice.

Would be nice to see you there.

/magnus

Although it isn't yet listed on Gomde Austria site, this is on CGLF website.

I can also wholeheartedly recommend The Royal Seal of Mahamudra. An absolutely superlative gem of a book.

We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all. - Kalu Rinpoche